I'd like to take a minute to include Allan Muhr .... he has been mentioned quite a few times along with a few of the players we've noted .... he didn't die in WW1 but WW2 RIP Allan Henry Muhr Allan Henry Muhr, called the Sioux - born on 23 January 1882 Philadelphia, PA United States and died on 29 December 1944 at Neuengamme, was an American player rugby XV, who played with the French team and the championship of Paris (in the Stade french then Racing Club de France) at the second line or third line. He competed in the first official match of the XV of France, 1 January 1906, against the All Blacks European tour then. Muhr had his first test match on 22 March 1906 against the England team - the second international match of the XV of France. Muhr played his second and last international match on 5 January 1907 against the England team. He refereed the finals of the French championship in 1906 and 1907 (when it is still international), and was patron of breeders XV of France from 1911 to 1919 (a kind of chairman of a "Selection Committee" before the hour) as well as the French team for Davis Cup in 1922 and 1923. In 1924, he participated actively in the organization are the Olympics to Paris with Baron Pierre de Coubertin, and also to those of winter held for their first edition in France (Chamonix), this time alongside Frantz Reichel - he was also President of the French Rugby Federation. He was a commander in the U.S. Army in France. Deported by the Nazis, he died in a concentration camp near Hamburg. He is Commander of the Legion of Honor - awarded posthumously - he was 62 when he died Muhr, Allen Henry, of Philadelphia - Awarded War Cross for distinguished service with the American Field Ambulance around Moronvilliers, in Champagne, northeast of Rheims.
Re: Allan Henry Muhr - Rugby Player- Neuengamme Concentration Camp I can't find him on any of the databases .... but I'm still looking ... if anybody can help ... would appreciate it please ! Conditions in the Camp As in other concentration camps, the prisoners were given inadequate food, shelter, or medicine to maintain their health. The camp authorities deployed them at forced labor, in camp construction, in the brickworks factory, in river-regulation projects on the Elbe and on construction of a canal between the Dove and Elbe Rivers. After the Allies began bombing cities in northwestern Germany in late 1942, the SS deployed prisoners from Neuengamme to clean up rubble and to remove unexploded munitions from the streets of major cities, such as Hamburg and Bremen. On April 17, 1943, six prisoners from a labor detachment of 700 Neuengamme prisoners were killed during an Allied air raid on the city of Bremen. Prisoners were forbidden to use air raid shelters during Allied air attacks on German cities. The conditions under which the camp authorities forced the prisoners to work and the absence of even rudimentary medical care facilitated the spread of disease, including pneumonia, tuberculosis, and typhus. More than 1,000 prisoners died in a louse-born typhus epidemic that began in December 1941. In addition to the dreadful living conditions, the prisoners suffered beatings and arbitrary punishments. SS overseers and prisoner functionaries (the camp and block elders, and the kapos) abused and killed prisoners according to whim in addition to the typical “official” punishments of prisoners (solitary confinement, standing at attention for hours, whipping, hanging from posts, and transfer to penal labor details). From 1940 to 1943, the camp authorities issued prisoners the typical striped uniforms of the concentration camps. After 1943, some prisoners received civilian clothes from supplies plundered from Jews killed in German-occupied Poland and the German-occupied Soviet Union. Initially, the camp authorities arranged for the cremation of bodies of deceased prisoners in crematoria managed by the Hamburg municipal authorities. After the spring of 1942, Neuengamme had its own crematorium. In 1942, SS authorities began systematically killing prisoners who were no longer capable of work. The camp authorities initiated this process in the spring within the framework of Operation 14f13, in which physicians appointed by German health agencies “examined” prisoners incapable of work for symptoms of mental disability and selected them for murder. The SS sent those selected at Neuengamme to the killing center at Bernberg an der Saale, where German medical personnel murdered them in gas chambers. After 1942, Neuengamme medical routinely murdered prisoners too weak to work by means of lethal injection. Some 2,000 Gestapo prisoners were brought to Neuengamme between 1942 and 1945 to be killed. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005539
